Carter Heller, Faith Christian dominate Morrisville

Thursday

The Lions senior whiffs 14 in six innings as Faith Christian rolls to BAL victory.

DUBLIN — It was one mistake. A brief blip on a near-perfect afternoon for Carter Heller.

But the Faith Christian senior right-hander knew that he couldn't let the double down to the third baseline off the bat of Morrisville's Jorden Seasr bother him too much, and he didn't.

Heller went six innings for the Lions, recorded 14 strikeouts and allow just that one hit in a dominant 8-1 effort over the visiting Bulldogs in a Bicentennial Athletic League baseball game played at the Deep Run Valley Sports Association fields on Thursday afternoon.

"Yeah, I hung a curveball," Heller said. "I probably should've gone with a fastball, but it is what it is. That's baseball. You're not going to be perfect."

The win improved Heller's season record to 5-0, and aside from Seasr's double in the fourth inning, he couldn't have been much better.

"Being a senior, he's been growing and maturing as a pitcher since he was a freshman," said Faith coach Ed Curry. "Last year and now this year, it's his time."

Morrisville has seen quite a bit of Heller, so that kind of performance was nothing new.

"We've faced him for three years," said Bulldogs coach Mike Rush. "He's their ace anytime you face him. He pitched a great game again today. He's just tough on the hill. You've got to tip your cap to him.

"We had a little rally going and then he came down and had a showdown inning right after it. It's going to be a battle for whoever faces him."

The double broke up Heller's no-hit bit and snapped a three-inning stretch that saw nine of the previous 10 Morrisville batters set down via strikeout.

"I got the slider going early," Heller said. "Slider is usually key for me. I got the slider going and worked off the fastball."

Offensively, Heller got things started for the Lions in the bottom of the first, with a lead-off double. Jared Forscht followed with a single, Heller scored on a Josiah Smith ground ball and freshman Peyton Curry's single made it 2-0. Matt Reichley later drove in another run with a single and Jacob Davis stole home on a double-steal to make it a 4-0 game after one.

From that point, Morrisville starter CJ Vareha settled down and kept Faith off the board for few innings, and when Seasr scored on a wild pitch in the fourth it was 4-1, and the Bulldogs still were in striking distance.

"CJ's been throwing well for us all year," Rush said. "He pitched at home against (Faith) and they roughed him up pretty good. We pitched him today, and he pitched phenomenal. They played some good 'D' behind him. We just had a rough first inning and we just couldn't come back from it."

The Lions put the game away with four runs in the bottom of the six, as Morrisville committed three errors and the home team took advantage.

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